:mattLandia:

I've been meaning to post this for a few days, but keep forgetting. If you haven't seen this elsewhere already, well, I'm doing my part and posting this here as well. Given in retort to a Darth Rumsfeld speech in SLC 11 days ago, I applaud Mr. Olberman's response.

An old college friend posted much more eloquent thougts on the matter, (and it's late and I'm tired) so I'll just quote him to sum up:

"I understand that every blogger with a clean set of pajamas is bent out of shape, one way or another, over Rumsfeld's speech. What's written in this tiny little backwater of the internet will likely have no effect on the current debate in our country. It will be viewed, likely with some bemusement, by my friends and family, and by the small handful of people who have stumbled upon this site and return on occasion.

But maybe, if thousands of small voices start speaking up, it will add up to a larger voice, something that will be listened to. And maybe that will affect some kind of change that means that the two little boys who just puked on me tonight won't have to grow up in a country where they have to "watch what they say" if they don't agree with their government.

Dissent is patriotic. So there."